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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot | My best fences are like Jim's. 5 barbed with one smooth hot wire located between 2-3 wires. I use an insulator on every post and have never had a short where I did it all correctly. 3-5 steel T posts then a RR tie with RR tie corners. No need for any more than one hot wire in my opinion.
This is for irrigated pasture fence, fairly high stocking rates at times when they are rotated through. For range fence there is no electric wire or maybe only 4 barbed as there is much lower pressure.
Worst fence is a mixture of old barbed wire, woven wire, and now straw blown into it. And now the dirt is starting to drift into it, cows will be able to walk across it if the wind doesn't stop blowing! I though I would string an electric wire along side of it to 'fix' it once, now that will drive a guy crazy like Ben said with shorts. Not a good idea. Just going to have to replace it as the barbed wire is too rusted out to hold. Must not have been built right, it was brand new fence just back in 1950... guess they just don't build them like they used to... ;) | |
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